PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



VoL 104 Washington : 1953 No. 3340 



FOUR NEW VENEZUELAN REDUVIID BUGS 



By J. Maldonado Capriles^ 



The four species described in this paper were collected by the author 

 in different places in Territorio x\mazonas, Venezuela, during an 

 expedition sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico. 



The author is greatly indebted to Dr. Petr Wygodzinsky, of the 

 Instituto de Medicina Regional at Tucumdn, Argentina, for his 

 invaluable suggestions, and to Dr. Carl J. Drake for the loan of a 

 paratype of Sirthenea peruviana Drake and Harris. 



Diarthrotarsus marahuacensis, new species 



Figure 79,a-c 



Female: Over-all length 12,2 mm. Head grayish stramineous, 

 lighter from between the antenna up to and including the interocular 

 depression. Eyes brownish. First antennal segment stramineous, with 

 reddish basal, median, and apical bands, the last darker; second yel- 

 lowish, with black apical band ; third with basal third stramineous, 

 apical two-thirds reddish; fourth missing. Thorax dorsally and 

 scutellum stramineous. Clavus and corium stramineous with a reddish 

 tinge, veins and many small irregular markings lighter, apical angles 

 brownish. Membrane finely corrugate, light brown, veins concolorous. 

 Rostrum with first and second segments stramineous with narrow red- 

 dish band near apices; thu'd segment brownish. Anterior femur, 

 posteriorly, from base, with four alternating light and dark brown 

 bands, each about one-fourth the length of the femur; anteriorly the 

 two dark bands coalesce irregularly, forming an incomplete Ughter 



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